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Named after the author's beloved childhood home and first published in 1922, this is the first part of a notionally autobiographical trilogy and an enchanting, in many ways unexpected text. It can be read as many things; memoir, autofiction, even part of Lagerlöf's myth-making about her own successful writing career. It is part folklore, part social and family history, part mischievous satire in the guise of an innocent child's-eye narrative, part declaration of a daughter's love for a fallible father.

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